"NOWICKI, pronounced roughly "no-VEET-skee", is a very common Polish name, borne by 49,771 Polish citizens as of 1990; they lived all over Poland, with no significant concentration in any one area.It refers to the name of a place the family came from, which could be any of a number of places with names such as Nowica and Nowice.The basic meaning is -one from Nowica- or -one from Nowice- or some similar place name."